What does CMB stand for?

Cosmic Microwave Background

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Samples in periodicals archive:

8-feet) telescope carries two arrays of detectors designed to measure the temperature of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the relic energy of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago.

Europe's 'Big Bang' space telescope off to good start

The Planck telescope is a survey telescope using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements of the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

United States: ESA launches Herschel Space Observatory and Planck ...

These waves, some created a mere fraction of a second after the Big Bang, were free to leave their subtle imprint on the cosmic microwave background when that radiation began streaming into space.

Planck by Planck: mapping the earliest moments of time

Theorists in the 1960s suggested that the primordial seeds of galaxies should be seen as ripples in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation emitted in the heat left over from the Big Bang, when the universe was a mere 350,000 years old.

Researchers find link to Big Bang

This afterglow is called cosmic microwave background radiation.

Hey, baby! (Space/Big Bang Theory)

``The light seen today as the cosmic microwave background has travelled for more than 13 billion years to reach us,'' Nasa said.

The final frontier

The glow, called cosmic microwave background radiation, carried an imprint of large waves to the detectors on Earth.

Clues to the Big Bang

the daily rotation of the Earth about its axis and the movement of the Earth relative to the cosmic microwave background radiation.

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